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Re: Go ahead, make my day!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Tue, 24 Jul 2001 17:10:27 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler writes:
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> > By the way--no lawyer worth his shinola would allow you to remain on that
> > jury, of course.
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> If you were foolish enough to actually *say* that during jury selection.
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> I think I have the whole "sheep" thing down
That's funny larry. I do the same thing. Most of my coworkers have always
wanted schemes to get out of jury duty...but I always thought that was easy and
irresponsible. I've always answered everything neutrally so that I would stay.
> "maneuver one's self to be the foreman once deliberations start" which is
> also very useful, (or so I hear).
How is this choice made? It seems that the one time my jury duty lead to
hearing evidence for four hours before they settled at lunch time, we didn't
have a foreman. When is there and is there not such a position? And how do
you get to be it when there is?
> At that point whip out the FIJA information (from memory, you might
> get arrested if you bring literature in) and share with the rest of the jury
> the duty to judge the *law* as well as the facts.
Arrested for what?
Chris
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| (...) Well I hear it usually is up to the jury to decide who the foreman is using whatever mechanism they decide on, I understand being foreman is perceived as being a bit more work, so I have heard that people will happily go along with it if one (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) If you were foolish enough to actually *say* that during jury selection. I think I have the whole "sheep" thing down (or so I think), along with the "maneuver one's self to be the foreman once deliberations start" which is also very useful, (...) (25 years ago, 24-Jul-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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